(she/they)
I am a first year PhD student and NSF GRFP fellow studying astronomy at Northwestern University.
I am interested in the metal-poor massive stars that inhabit high-redshift galaxies. These massive stars are observationally distinct from those in the local universe, and accurately modeling their radiation is crucial to interpreting the new observations of high-redshift galaxies from JWST. I plan to use rest-UV and rest-optical spectra of these galaxies alongside stellar evolution and population synthesis modeling to understand the emission from these stars and how we can implement it within our models of high-redshift galaxies.
My previous research includes modeling populations of massive stars stripped through binary interaction, using dimensionality reduction to detect errors in photometric redshift template fitting, and characterizing solar eruptions.